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In 1964, a dad's photo of his daughter captured a figure in a spacesuit — a mystery that still baffles
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In 1964, a dad's photo of his daughter captured a figure in a spacesuit — a mystery that still baffles

Ellsworth Toohey
Dec 20, 2024
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Photo: James Templeton (declared by Templeton to be in the Public Domain in 2002)

When firefighter Jim Templeton snapped three photos of his 5-year-old daughter on a marsh in Cumberland, England in 1964, he had no idea he was about to capture one of the strangest images in UFO history. It wasn't until the photos came back from Kodak that he noticed something extraordinary — a figure in what appeared to be a space suit lurking in the background of one shot.

"I took three pictures of my daughter Elizabeth in a similar pose – and was shocked when the middle picture came back from Kodak displaying what looks like a spaceman in the background," Templeton wrote in a 2002 letter to the Daily Mail. He insisted no one else was present when he took the photo, except for "a couple of old women sitting in a car at the far end of the marsh." The peculiar image quickly made headlines worldwide, with Kodak analysts confirming the photograph hadn't been tampered with.

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